Subj : Re: Overhead of getting current thread id
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Oliver S.
Date : Fri Apr 08 2005 01:49 am

> Is someone aware of any faster alternatives to
> GetCurrentThreadId() in Win32? Or is it already
> optimal?

That's the disassembly of GetCurrentThreadId()

mov     eax,dword ptr fs:[0x18] 
mov     eax,dword ptr [eax+0x24] 
ret

Doesn't this look pretty fast ?

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